The Real Reason You’re Still Overweight in Oxford.

The real reason you are still overweight has nothing to do with your conscious mind unless you are consciously trying to gain weight. This is the most important thing to understand about weight-gain; it has nothing to do with your conscious mind and everything to do with your sub-conscious mind.

Think about this for a moment. You aren’t trying to put on the weight are you? In fact you have probably tried very hard to lose the weight. Despite your very best efforts, the food somehow manages to find its way into your mouth. It’s almost as if you are fighting against yourself unconsciously. Well, that’s exactly what’s happening. Your weaker conscious mind is struggling against your far more powerful sub-conscious mind and losing. There is a very good reason for this:

You are programmed to gain weight in times of stress or uncertainty.

We as a species have evolved to overeat when we are uncertain about the future or when we feel insecure. This was a very good programme, because it ensured our survival when food was scarce. There was a time in human history when we had to physically go and find our food ourselves. This was a time in our evolution before we had discovered farming, while we were still hunter-gatherers. It was a time of feast and famine and if the famine lasted too long we died of starvation. In order to prevent our species from dying out from starvation we learned store energy in our bodies in the form of fat. At the first sign of famine we would automatically eat like there was no tomorrow.

This has only become a problem in recent times because we have stopped experiencing lean times when it comes to food supply. Today we farm our food in bulk using powerful machinery. We have refrigerators, preservatives and international transportation. In the Western World we have an overabundance of food.

We also live in the information era. This makes it possible for us to receive information on our TV’s and computers from every part of the world, every day. Journalists can’t sell boring information; it has to be exciting or scary. As such we allow our minds to be filled with images that create fear. As soon as we are feeling stressed or uncertain, we automatically start to eat like there is no tomorrow. This is a sub-conscious program that you may not even be aware of. You are not of aware of breathing until I bring it to your attention because it’s also a sub-conscious activity.

Most people, when the problem of being overweight is brought to their attention, try to rectify the problem using their conscious minds. This is as futile as trying to stop breathing with your conscious mind. If a person tries to stop breathing with their conscious mind by holding their breath, they will simply faint. In other words they will lose consciousness and the sub-conscious mind will just take over and start breathing again effortlessly. This is a protective program running in the sub-conscious mind. The protective sub-conscious mind will always win in the end even when it comes to the subject of weight gain.

Diets are a conscious mind activity and only last as long as you consciously stay on the diet. Taking tablets are exactly the same. They only work while you take them and as soon as you forget to take them, you gain all the weight back. The protective sub-conscious mind will protect you from starving to death.

The permanent solution is to change the protective program in the sub-conscious mind. The sub-conscious minds single greatest priority is to protect you from danger and once it discovers that it’s not helping, it will allow itself to be reprogrammed.

By far, the most effective way to reprogram the sub-conscious mind is with hypnosis. It is advisable to use a certified and registered clinical hypnotherapist with many years of experience if you want to use hypnosis to reprogram your mind.

Disclaimer: The success of hypnotherapy depends greatly on the client's ability to follow instructions and a personal desire for change. As such, hypnotherapy results vary and Oxford Hypnotherapy Clinic cannot offer any guarantee of success. If you do not want to change, for yourself, you are advised to seek help through other avenues.